Shell up to 66 mm in length with a protoconch of undetermined nature and weakly shouldered, broad, convex teleoconch whorls. Axial sculpture of last teleoconch whorl consisting of 3 broad, low or moderately high, rounded, nodose varices. Other axial sculpture of a single or 2 strong, high, nodose intervarical ridges, with high node at crossing with P3, s3 and P4 spiral cords. Spiral sculpture of strong, high primary cords, lower and narrower secondary cords, except broader s3 and few, narrow tertiary cords. Spiral sculpture of subsutural ramp of last whorl with adis, IP followed by P1, s1, P2, P3, t, s3, t, P4, s4, P5, s5, P6, (s6), t, on convex part of shell; s3 broader than other secondary cords and P6 narrow.
Aperture broadly ovate. Columellar lip smooth, almost completely adherent to shell. Outer lip crenulated, with narrow, elongate, split denticles on a short distance within, ID, D1-D6, all split. Siphonal canal short, broad, ventrally narrowly open, strongly dorsally bent at tip, with abapically bent ADP, MP, ABP, and abs.
Greyish brown or tan with darker coloured spiral bands at shoulder, periphery and above siphonal canal.

Naquetia jickelii, formerly treated as a synonym of /V. cumingii by Houart (1992: 128) and by Merle et al. (2011: 113), was later rehabilitated a valid species by Houart & Lorenz (2015), occurring only in the Red Sea. Prior to that, this species was already considered valid by Kaicher (1973: card 167), Fair (1976: 51), and Houart (1985: 10). Vokes (1978: 396) also retained it as valid, but she mixed the broad east African form of N. cumingii with the typical N. jickelii from the Red Sea. Radwin & D'Attilio (1976: 89) incorrectly synonymized N. jickelii with Chicomurex laciniatus.
Naquetia jickelii differs from N. cumingii in having lower spire whorls, a broader, less shouldered, last teleoconch whorl, a broader aperture, stronger intervarical ridges, a lower spire, and a comparatively shorter siphonal canal.

Type locality. Red Sea, Sudan, Suakin, on madrepores.
Distribution. Indo-W. Pac. (I). Red Sea, Sudan (Suakin and Port Sudan), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) and the Dahlak Archipelago.